Hydrosol/Hydrolat

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Butch Owen <butchbsi

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:17:28 -0800

Hydrosol/Hydrolat

 

 

Hi y'all,

 

Just saw this one .. and can't go afore I give my two cents. ;-p

 

> And check this out ... I saw one supplier define the difference

> between hydrosols and hydrolats as this:

> " Many people use the terms interchangeably. Our definitions are that a

> hydrolat is the water recovered from the distilLATion of the essential

> oil, a hydrosol is the essential oil diSOLved in water, these

> hydrosols normally contain a small amount of alcohol. "

> So even with those terms folks disagree on the exact meaning ;-p

 

This LAT and SOL crap is just that .. crap! If I had to bet right now

without having proof to put on the table .. I'd feel real comfortable

betting that Hydrosol is English and Hydrolat is French .. with the same

meaning. And this is probably the source of a lot of questions I get ..

like .. do your Hydrosols have alcohol in them? ;-p

 

A difference between Hydrosol and Hydrolat would not be in accordance

with tradition or science or the language of those who deal with

production for a living. Somebody wrote me a few minutes ago .. in

reference to another post I made that was countering false claims.

 

This person wrote ..

 

> I think that folks that don't know what they're talking about

> make stuff up....

> And there's a lot of stuff about the whole AT thing that isn't

> known at *all* by *anybody*, so they make more things up.....

> And then there's the mystical stuff.....

 

I agree .. if somebody thinks its necessary to be different to be unique

there are a lotta unique .. and wrong .. folks in the industry.

 

My opinion is that the differences they are trying to highlight are no

more than another means to spout marketing hype.

 

> *Smile*

> Chris (list mom)

> http://www.alittleolfactory.com

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com